President Obama points his finger in the shape of a gun. It's okay, he can do it, he's the President.

It used to be called "Cops and Robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians" when kids would point their fingers at each other and say, "pow." However, in today's climate of school shootings, violence by bullying and other forms mixed with the political correctness liberalism has taught us, some school officials may suspend your kids for that simple hand gesture.

In the case of 2 6-year-old boys from a Talbot County Maryland school, they were suspended for playing cops and robbers on the playground and using their fingers imaginary guns. It seems like bureaucrats always want to be the do-gooder and take meaningless action just so they can then trumpet that fact that they "did something."

This kind of political gamesmanship is the same nonsense we see in current gun control efforts by Andrew Coumo, President Obama and other gun control nuts to ban so-called assault weapons and restrict the size of ammo magazines. They are grandstanding and trying to make a name for themselves and unfortunately they never look at the real issue. We can have violent video games where participants "blow people away" and the same violent movies produced by Hollywood elites, violent and degrading music filling iTunes and the radio, and we can have David Gregory of Meet The Press brazenly ignore Washington DC law and display a 30 round ammo clip on TV, but don't let your kids point their fingers at each other heaven forbid, that would be over the line.

Maybe we should investigate or suspend President Obama for the same gesture in the picture at the top of this post.

Is it childâ€™s play or a serious threat of gun violence? For the second time in less than a month, a Maryland child is kicked out of school for using his finger in the shape of a gun.

No one is debating the importance of keeping children safe. The question being asked is whatâ€™s childâ€™s play and whatâ€™s not?

Controversy at a Talbot County school after two six-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.

â€œItâ€™s ridiculous,â€ said parent Julia Merchant

This is the second time a Maryland child has been suspended for such play. Earlier this month, six-year-old Rodney Lynch was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once.

â€œJust pointing your fingers like this and then she did the pow sound and I just went like that and then I got sent to the office again,â€ Lynch said.

The school reversed its decision after Rodneyâ€™s parents appealed.

â€œTheyâ€™re saying he threatened a student, threatened to shoot a student. He was playing,â€ said Rodneyâ€™s father, Rodney Lynch, Sr.

Dr. Kaine says most six-year-oldsâ€™ minds arenâ€™t developed enough to understand why their idea of fun play might make adults upset.

â€œI can certainly appreciate that at school, thatâ€™s not a type of play that they are going to endorse and I certainly support that, but thatâ€™s where we educate the time and place for doing things,â€ Kaine said.

A number of parents agree.

â€œSuspending them is a bit harsh and I donâ€™t think thatâ€™s gonna do any good for the parent, child or school,â€ said Janet Geotzky.

I would like to bring this to the attention of every respectable intelligent person who has common sense: THESE PEOPLE ARE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN!!!!
Move quickly and ban all stupid people from being able to get jobs in the department of education! Lest we be overrun by a nation of idiots! !!!
I DO NOT SAY THIS AS A JOKE! I AM SERIOUSLY TRYING TO MAKE A POINT!

This is getting so out of control. I remember when we were having the troubles in the north and south of Ireland a 7 yr old boy was playing cowboys with a toy gun and came up to a British soilder not checking to see the soilder shot him dead.
Is it going to come to something like this before Obama and crew will stop this crusade on gun control.when will they learn the people with registered guns are not the criminals. Obama the ones out of control are him and his yeehaws!!!!

If I were the parent I believe I would have had to punch one of the administrators in the face, just so they would have a good excuse to kick someone out. Yes, I understand the consequences, arrest, and so on, but it would be to prove a point. I don’t condone violence, but sometimes it is the only way to get your point across.Mine would be, “teach the kids how to read and write and let us parents do our jobs which is to mold them into the person they are going to be” Some administrators are so busy doing our jobs they are slacking on theirs.

Simply pathetic what our society has REGRESSED to. 6 year old boys are supposed to NOT play? Quite frankly, the people that educate our children in the public school systems are incompetent idealists who know nothing of reality.

Guns didn’t kill the people in Newtown, Aurora, Columbine or any other school. The lack of Mental Health Care has. There was not gun violence in Schools before the attack on the Mental Health System in the 70’s and the renewed attack in the 1990-2000’s to provide more funding for private prisons. Close the private prisons and reopen the Mental Health Hospitals. Fund Mental Health and a world of problems are solved. Change the patients rights for mental health patients so they can get help and family can get help for them. The system today is impossible to get help for a mentally ill person unless they commit a violent crime. And I’m not using the word impossible lightly. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get help for anyone who has not commited a violent crime but sufferes from a severe mental illness.

I totally agree. Hell it’s impossible to get help with anything these days. I was widowed just 3 months ago and to get any help is IMPOSSIBLE. No health care at all unless I pay the $1007 a month medicaid wants. And no DR.s take it. So whats the point.

Could not agree with you more Joan. From family experience the law basically ties the families hands while loved ones off medication disappear or have to be tracked down through family and friends. It is very scary how our society has demonized mental health but then takes away the means to get help for most. My kids play cops and robbers all the time and I don’t think anything of it because we did the same thing as kids. Recover our mental health funding and this issue would not be as big as it is now.

I’ll tell you what our nation has come to. A bunch of bleeding heart, whining, pansy a$$ liberal, politically correct morons who think that the only way to live is to be scared that they are going to offend or be offended by a child pointing a finger.The way I see it, if you are offended by my actions then don’t stay near me because you will probably get offended again shortly. It is a FREE country and childs play should not be the issue. The issue should be removing the ILLEGAL weapons from the streets to make a safer society. Not the legal ones. The job of the school is to teach. How are they teaching by punishing?